It was purely unplanned and
shortest trip ever made in my life only distance of 157Km up and down. Yesterday evening
after the busy office schedule I was thinking of what to do on May Day’s leave,
then my colleague Vinod told me that there is a beautiful village called
Thodikana is nestled under the foot hills of Western Ghats near Sullia, and
also it’s known for the famous Sri Mallikarjuna temple.
Hanging Bridge on the way
Raviraj Trying over the bridge.....
Prashanth
So searched route and called my
friend Ravi at night he and his cousin willing to join with me on their CT100.
So morning 6:00AM left from my house joined Ravi and Prashanth joined at Mavinakatte and headed towards
Sullia.
Rope way to the Sky
Road to Thodikana
On the way nothing to see the
winding roads goes between reserved forest and Payaswini river flows on right
hand side of the road, on the way a beautiful rope bridge was built to link
some of villages. After clicking some snaps headed towards Sullia and took a break
for breakfast.
On the way small bridge.. Vinod says lots of Ghosts wandering here at night
Scenery neat Thodikana
Sullia to Thodikana distance is
only18Km one has to drive 12Kms on the main Sampaje road and take diversion
from Aranthodu. When we reached Aranthodu called Vinod was also joined with us.
From Aranthodu road goes between dense forest but some of the places forest
replaced with rubber plantations, on right hand side of the road one can spot
the Western Ghats.
Sri Mallikarjuna Temple
Temple premises
Temple flower Garden
Carvings
Road dead ends at Thodikana
temple premises, it is a typical
Karnataka style small agriculture oriented village. Main Idol in the temple is Sri Mallikarjuna
and the story behind this temple is beautifully painted outskirt of the temple
wall. Vana Shastara and Matsya teertha or Meenagundi (fish tank) is located just near the temple
lots of fishes swimming over there, killing the fishes are forbidden visitors
feeds raw rice to them.
Painting on the wall
Vana Sastara
Meena gundi (Fish tank)
Huge tree near Meena Gundi
After visiting temple went back
home if you are willing to visit this spot wait till the monsoon it will change
it in to haven on the earth.
